REALTY:
Workshop
5 October 17, 2 pm
Studio, Front building, 1st floor
Free admission, limited capacity
Please RSVP until October 3, 2017, at sh@kw-berlin.de
Session hosted by the Sommerakademie Paul Klee fellowship program with artists Johanna Bruckner, Crystal Z Campbell, Luiza Crosman, Alexandros Kyriakatos, Alexis Mitchell, Bahar Noorizadeh, Heather M. O’Brien & Jonathan Takahashi
Over the period of Summer 2017 to Spring 2019, the Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern grants fellowships to eight artists committed to issues spelled out in the REALTY program. Having collectively pinned down some fundamental working premises, the Fellows now convene in Berlin to further elaborate the key premises, and share some core concerns with a small public. In conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, the aim is to strategically reflect on the embeddedness of one’s practice within political, labor, and housing questions. With the point of departure being not only that contemporary art is an unregulated field par excellence. But that this precarious state of affairs produces the very cosmopolitan creative class that bolsters gentrification.
Part of project: REALTY
The project REALTY focused on the role of contemporary art in recent histories of gentrification. These days, it seems one artist, one venue, one model after another is being unmasked as being part of the problem. But we will not be discussing art’s shortcomings yet again. Instead, REALTY asked how art’s international playing field can be put to better use. It insisted on moving beyond critique, and towards an attempt at productive models, however vague or naive. The KW leg of REALTY kicked off in October 2017, with a series of public lectures, workshops, and screenings. The project was conceived by Tirdad Zolghadr, KW’s Associate Curator, and commissioned by KW and Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern.
Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Curatorial Assistance: Sabrina Herrmann
REALTY was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.
Overview
2017–2022
REALTY:
Book launch Tirdad Zolghadr with Christopher Roth
11 May 22
Ethics as Authorship – A Preliminary Study of Institutional Power Structures
18 December 18
8 Dezember 18
14–18 November 18
8–13 November 18
Larissa Fassler
2–12 November 18
Gentrify GIF/Realty
23 June 18, 12 pm
Resolution 3: Municipalism (Tehran)
22 April 18, 5 pm
9 April 18, 2 pm
2nd Working meeting: Kunstbloc and beyond
4 April 18, 6 pm
Resolution 2: Triple TV Propaganda
18 March 18, 3 pm
17 March 18, 3 pm
Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras: Flag Wars (2003)
- 5 October 17, 8.30 pm
Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers
4 October 17, 7 pm
3 October 17, 6 pm

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.